Paul Auster

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and "one of the great American prose stylists of our time" (New York Times)Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has just forgotten on the stove.Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.

A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world's great writers. The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna.

"Baumgartner" åbner i hvirvelvind af forglemmelser. Midt i en sætning om Kierkegaards pseudonymer går det op for den 71-årige filosofiprofessor, Seymour Baumgartner, at han har glemt den bog han skal bruge nede i stuen. I stuen slår det ham, at han har glemt at ringe til sin søster, og på vej hen til telefonen rammer en kras lugt fra køkkenet hans næsebor: Komfurets flamme er ved at æde sig ind i den kasserolle, som han lavede morgenmad i tre timer tidligere.Selvom Baumgartner glemmer verden omkring sig, husker han Anna. Fra de mødtes som unge studerende i New York, over fyrre års passioneret ægteskab til den skæbnesvangre dag for ni år siden, hvor Anna blev taget fra ham. Siden den dag har hans liv været styret af minderne, men en brændt kasserolle bliver det uventede vendepunkt, der igen giver hans tilværelse retning.En indsigtsfuld og rørende roman af Paul Auster. Oversat til dansk af Rasmus Hastrup.

TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY **'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker'Brilliant .

Here and Now is a collection of letters between Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee, two of the greatest writers of our time.'Uniquely insightful.' Independent'Extraordinary.' Times Literary SupplementAlthough Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other'.Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, eroticism, marriage, friendship, and love.

Den 3. marts1947 fødes Archibald Isaac Ferguson i New Jersey. Fra denne dag forgrenes fortællingen om Archibald i fire forskellige retninger. Fire drenge, som egentlig er den samme dreng, vokser op og lever parallelle, men helt forskellige liv. For hvilke valg og tilfældigheder afgør, hvilken retning ens liv tager? 4321 tager læseren med fra den søvnige forstad til det myldrende Manhattan og kunstnernes Paris. Fra sportsdrømme til forfatterambitioner. Fra 50'ernes tro på fremtiden til 60'ernes Kennedy-mord, Vietnamkrig, borgerrettighedsbevægelse og en hel generations knuste drømme. 4321 er en storslået roman om en ung mand, der bliver voksen i et Amerika i forandring.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeA New York Times , Los Angeles Times , Boston Globe, and Indiebound Bestseller Paul Auster's magnum opus, 4 3 2 1 presents a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. "An epic bildungsroman . . . . Original and complex . . . . A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes."--Tom Perrotta, The New York Times Book Review Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from the author before, 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force. "A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. . . . An incredibly moving, true journey."--NPR

"Det var den sommer hvor mennesket for første gang gik på månen. Jeg var ganske ung på det tidspunkt, men troede ikke de nogensinde ville komme en fremtid. Jeg ønskede at leve farligt, at presse mig selv til det yderste, og så se hvad der skete når jeg nåede derud. Det skulle vise sig at jeg næsten ikke klarede det ...« Marco Stanley Fogg er forældreløs, tresserbarn, af natur en eventyrrejsende, åndeligt såvel som legemligt. Moon Palace er hans historie, en roman som strækker sig over tre generationer, fra dette århundredes begyndelse til de første månelandinger, og som bevæger sig fra Manhattans slugter til det vestlige Amerikas grusomt smukke landskaber. fuld af spænding, usandsynlige sammentræf, hjerteskærende tragedier og vidunderlige lyriske passager, fører romanen ubesværet læseren af sted med Marco i hans søgen efter kærlighed, efter den ukendte far og efter nøglen til hans oprindelses og skæbnes uhåndgribelige rødder. Den amerikanske forfatter Paul Auster er født i 1947 i New Jersey og bor nu i Brooklyn med sin familie. Paul Auster debuterede som prosaist med erindringsbogen Opfindelsen af ensomhed i 1982 (dansk udgave 1990) og har skrevet den berømte New York Trilogi og en lang række andre internationalt anerkendte romaner, der alle er oversatte til dansk. Paul Austers omfattende forfatterskab består derudover af lyrik, essays og filmmanuskripter. Efter kultfilmene Smoke og Blue in the Face (1995), hvor han var medinstruktør, har han senest skrevet og instrueret filmene Lulu on the Bridge (1998) og The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007). Paul Auster modtog i 2006 den store spanske pris Prince of Asturias Award.

Mand i mørke foregår over én lang, søvnløs nat i August Brills liv. For at slå tiden ihjel, digter han for sig selv historien om den unge Owen Brick som vågner op i et cirkulært hul i en parallel verden. Owen befinder sig midt i en ny amerikansk territorialkrig og får det ultimatum enten at blive likvideret eller selv likvidere en forfatter ved navn ... August Brill ... manden der har opfundet den parallelle verden og holder krigen kørende ved fortsat at digte den. Den virkelige, søvnløse Brill er indlogeret hos sin datter Miriam og sit barnebarn Katya. Alle tre er de i færd med at pleje de sår som livet i en ny og omskiftelig verden år 2007 har påført dem. Paul Auster leger igen uforudsigeligt og mesterligt med sine fortællinger som han indlejrer i hinanden. Mand i mørke handler en smule om krig og en masse om kærlighed, kærlighedens voldsomme ophør - og kærlighedens helende kraft. Den amerikanske forfatter Paul Auster er født i 1947 i New Jersey og bor nu i Brooklyn med sin familie. Paul Auster debuterede som prosaist med erindringsbogen Opfindelsen af ensomhed i 1982 (dansk udgave 1990) og har skrevet den berømte New York Trilogi og en lang række andre internationalt anerkendte romaner, der alle er oversatte til dansk. Paul Austers omfattende forfatterskab består derudover af lyrik, essays og filmmanuskripter. Efter kultfilmene Smoke og Blue in the Face (1995), hvor han var medinstruktør, har han senest skrevet og instrueret filmene Lulu on the Bridge (1998) og The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007). Paul Auster modtog i 2006 den store spanske pris Prince of Asturias Award.

Paul Auster's enthralling adventure story from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate.'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

Marco Stanley Fogg, an orphan of the sixties, travels from Manhattan to Utah in search of himself

An intimate, unforgettable series of photographs by Spencer Ostrander documenting American gun violence, interwoven with writing by Paul Auster, one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe), In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America's use and abuse of guns, from the violent displacement of the native population to the forced enslavement of millions, to the bitter divide between embattled gun control and anti-gun control camps that has developed over the past 50 years and the mass shootings that dominate the news today. Since 1968, more than one and a half million Americans have been killed by guns. The numbers are so large, so catastrophic, so disproportionate to what goes on elsewhere, that one must ask why. Why is America so different--and why are we the most violent country in the Western world?Spencer Ostrander's haunting photographs of the sites of more than thirty mass shootings across the United States are highlighted in this edition of Bloodbath Nation. And through it all, Paul Auster presents a succinct but thorough examination of America at a crossroads, and asks the central, burning question of our moment: What kind of society do we want to live in?

Paul Austerin rakastetuin romaani taas saatavilla!Austerin romaani on sydämeenkäyvä kertomus siitä, millaisia sattumuksia kohtalo voi ihmisen tielle heittää.Nathan Glass vetäytyy Brooklyniin odottamaan kuolemaa. Aikansa kuluksi hän kirjoittaa muistiin ihmisille sattuneita ihmeellisiä tapahtumia, joista hän aikoo koota Ihmiselämän mielettömyyden kirjan. Mutta pian Nathan kohtaa itsekin ihmeellisiä sattumuksia. Kaikki alkaa, kun hän törmää sisarenpoikaansa Tomiin, jonka elämä on suistunut raiteiltaan. Tomin kautta Nathan tutustuu verrattomaan Harry Brightmaniin. Seuraavaksi joukkoon tupsahtaa pieni sukulaistyttö, joka ei suostu puhumaan. Nathanin ympärille kertyy vähitellen monilukuinen rakastava perhe, ja erakoitumisen sijaan hän onkin elämässä kiinni tiukemmin kuin koskaan ennen.Paul Auster (s. 1947) asuu New Yorkin Brooklynissa. Hänen tuotantonsa käsittää romaaneja, muistelmia, esseitä, runoja ja elokuvakäsikirjoituksia. Hän on yksi Yhdysvaltain arvostetuimmista kirjailijoista.